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...The Behshad is registered as an ordinary dry bulk carrier, and outwardly looks like any of the thousands of such vessels that ply the oceans....
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...“The supply chain constraint will still be with us for another two years . . . Demand will not go down.”...
...The most serious previous assault, on February 19, led to the sinking of the dry bulk carrier Rubymar. Its crew all abandoned ship safely....
...Another dry bulk carrier, the Sea Champion, faced two missile attacks on Monday in the Gulf of Aden....
...That followed Monday’s missile strike on another bulk carrier in the Gulf of Aden....
...That compares with combined orders of more than 700,000 last year in Phoenix, San Francisco and Los Angeles, according to Waymo, the self-driving car developer of Google’s parent company Alphabet....
...The attack followed a missile strike on Monday on the Gibraltar Eagle, another bulk carrier, in the Gulf of Aden....
...The campaign of attacks by Yemen’s Houthis on commercial ships claimed its first fatalities on Wednesday when a strike on a Barbados-flagged dry bulk carrier in the Gulf of Aden left three seafarers dead...
...Dry bulk carriers such as the Gibraltar Eagle have mostly continued to transit through the Red Sea, however....
...One vessel hijacked in December remains off Somalia, while pirates briefly seized another bulk carrier the following month before it was freed by the Indian navy....
...The missiles landed harmlessly in the sea, as did those launched last week at the Star Nasia, a carrier for dry bulk commodities....
...The UK-owned cargo ship Unity Explorer and two other bulk carriers were struck and reported damage but no casualties....
...Days later, the company announced it would pause all operations of its driverless vehicles, which had also been active in the US cities of Austin, Phoenix and Houston....
...On Monday the Houthis made their most damaging strike so far on a commercial ship with an assault on the Lebanese-owned dry bulk carrier, the Rubymar....
...The company generates about 15 per cent of its sales in Greater China, with the bulk coming from the US and Europe. The filing also shows that at the end of 2022, the company had net debt of $5.8bn....
...Including bulk carriers and tankers, the number is far higher....
...In the US, almost a 10th — $850bn — of the life insurance market is owned or managed in partnership with private capital groups, according to the IMF....
...Attacks peaked in March when three mariners were killed after a missile hit the bulk carrier True Confidence....
...Cruise vehicles had also been operating in the US cities of Austin, Phoenix and Houston....
...Earlier on Wednesday, the Houthis launched an attack drone and struck a bulk carrier ship in the Gulf of Aden....
...Driverless cars are being tested in a handful of other US cities and Alphabet’s Waymo has a commercial service in part of Phoenix and surrounding suburbs....
...Carriers big and small are hooked into the same system....
...One was the Morning Tide, a bulk carrier flying the flag of Barbados but owned by a British-registered company....
...Some, such as the NBA’s Phoenix Suns, yanked their fixtures off Diamond-owned Bally Sports and put the games on free-to-air television....
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